Method for displaying information, and terminal equipment

ABSTRACT

Embodiments of the present application disclose a method for displaying information, and a terminal equipment, wherein at least one information card is displayed on a display screen after a display instruction is received, the information card including information to be displayed. It means that an information card is displayed as long as a terminal equipment receives a display instruction, such that a user can browse information displayed on an information card without entering an application, and thus the operation is simple. In addition, the terminal device can also switch information cards after receiving a switching instruction to display more information to a user.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

The present application is a continuation of International ApplicationNo. PCT/CN2017/071543, filed Jan. 18, 2017, which is acontinuation-in-part of International Application No. PCT/CN2016/111829,filed Dec. 23, 2016. The entire contents of the above-referencedapplications are incorporated into the present application by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present application relates to the technical field of terminalequipments, and particularly to a method for displaying information, anda terminal equipment.

BACKGROUND

At present, with more and more powerful functions of a terminalequipment, users can use a terminal equipment to perform a variety ofoperations, such as browsing news, viewing the weather, communicatingwith other users and so on. In general, users can install applicationsin a terminal to achieve the above-mentioned operations, for example,installing a news application to browse news; or users can also usebrowser-type applications of a terminal to achieve the above-mentionedoperations, for example, browsing news, viewing the weather,communicating with other users, and so on.

For example, when a user receives pushed news, if he/she wants to browsethe news, then the user needs to click the news and enter thecorresponding application (news application or browser application), andafter completion of the browsing, the user needs to exit theapplication, which results in complicated operations.

SUMMARY

The objective of embodiments of the present application is to provide amethod and device for displaying information as well as a terminalequipment, so as to make the operation simple.

In order to achieve the above objective, embodiments of the presentapplication disclose a method for displaying information, whichcomprises steps of:

receiving a display instruction and displaying at least one informationcard on a display screen of a terminal equipment;

receiving a switching instruction;

if the switching instruction is to slide rightwards, at least one newinformation card is moved into the display screen from left to rightwhen moving the at least one information card rightwards out of thedisplay screen;

if the switching instruction is to slide leftwards, at least one newinformation card is moved into the display screen from right to leftwhen moving the at least one information card leftwards out of thedisplay screen;

wherein the size of the information card is smaller than the size of thedisplay screen, and the information card includes information to bedisplayed.

In order to achieve the above objective, embodiments of the presentapplication further disclose a device for displaying information, whichcomprises:

a first display module for receiving a display instruction anddisplaying at least one information card on a display screen of aterminal equipment, wherein the size of the information card is smallerthan the size of the display screen, and the information card includesinformation to be displayed;

a switching module for receiving a switching instruction; if theswitching instruction is to slide rightwards, at least one newinformation card is moved into the display screen from left to rightwhen moving the at least one information card rightwards out of thedisplay screen; if the switching instruction is to slide leftwards, atleast one new information card is moved into the display screen fromright to left when moving the at least one information card leftwardsout of the display screen.

In order to achieve the above objective, embodiments of the presentapplication further disclose a terminal equipment, which comprising: aprocessor, a memory, communication interfaces, input/output interfacesand a bus. Wherein the processor, the memory, the communicationinterfaces and the input/output interfaces are connected to the busrespectively, the memory is used for storing executable program codes;the processor executes a program corresponding to the executable programcodes through reading the executable program codes stored in the memory,so as to perform the following steps:

receiving a display instruction and displaying at least one informationcard on a display screen of the terminal equipment;

receiving a switching instruction;

if the switching instruction is to slide rightwards, at least one newinformation card is moved into the display screen from left to rightwhen moving the at least one information card rightwards out of thedisplay screen;

if the switching instruction is to slide leftwards, at least one newinformation card is moved into the display screen from right to leftwhen moving the at least one information card leftwards out of thedisplay screen;

wherein, the size of the information card is smaller than the size ofthe display screen, and the information card includes information to bedisplayed.

In order to achieve the above objective, embodiments of the presentapplication further disclose an application program, which is used toperform the method for displaying information mentioned above when beingexecuted.

In order to achieve the above objective, embodiments of the presentapplication further disclose a storage medium for storing applicationprograms, which application programs are used to perform the method fordisplaying information mentioned above when being executed.

By applying the embodiments of the present application, at least oneinformation card is displayed on a display screen of a terminalequipment after a display instruction is received, the information cardincluding information to be displayed. That is, an information card isdisplayed as long as a terminal equipment receives a displayinstruction, such that a user can browse information displayed on theinformation card without entering an application, and thus the operationis simple. In addition, the terminal device can also switch informationcards after receiving a switching instruction to display moreinformation to a user.

Of course, the implementation of any of the products or method of thepresent application is not necessary to achieve all the advantagesdescribed above at the same time.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

In order to describe the embodiments of the present application and thetechnical solutions in the prior art more clearly, drawings required forembodiments of the present application and the prior art will bedescribed briefly below. It is obvious that the drawings below only showsome embodiments of the present application, and those skilled in theart can also obtain further drawings based on these drawings without anycreative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a first schematic flowchart of the method for displayinginformation provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIGS. 2a-2d are schematic views of interfaces of the information displayinterfaces provided by embodiment of the present application;

FIGS. 2e-2m are line drawings of interfaces of the information displayinterfaces provided by embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a second schematic flowchart of the method for displayinginformation provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a device for displayinginformation provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal equipmentprovided by an embodiment of the present application.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In order to make the objections, technical solutions as well asadvantages of the present application more apparent and understandable,the present application will be described in more detail below withreference to the appended drawings and embodiments. Obviously, thedescribed embodiments are only some of the embodiments of the presentapplication, rather than all of the embodiments. All other embodimentsobtained based on the embodiments of the present application by thoseskilled in the art without doing any creative work fall into theprotection scope defined by the present application.

In order to solve the above technical problem, embodiments of thepresent application provide a method and device for displayinginformation as well as a terminal equipment. The method and device canbe applied to various terminal devices such as mobile phones, tabletsand the like.

First, a method for displaying information provided by the embodimentsof the present application will be described in detail below.

FIG. 1 is a first schematic flowchart of the method for displayinginformation provided by an embodiment of the present application, whichcomprises:

S101: receiving a display instruction and displaying at least oneinformation card on a display screen of a terminal equipment, whereinthe size of the information card is smaller than the size of the displayscreen, the information card includes information to be displayed.

In the present embodiment, there may be many cases in which a displayinstruction is received by a terminal equipment. For example, when it isdetected by a terminal equipment that a display screen becomes bright,that is, when a display screen is switched from a screen-off state to ascreen-on state, it can be considered that a display instruction isreceived. Or a terminal equipment initiates a timer, each time the timerreaches a preset period, it can be considered that a display instructionis received. Or when a terminal equipment receives a push information ora prompt message from a third-party application or the system, it can beconsidered that a display instruction is received, and so on.

For ease of description, the information to be displayed, which iscontained in an information card, is here referred to as targetinformation.

As an embodiment, a terminal equipment may obtain target information inadvance and display the target information after receiving a displayinstruction. For example, the target information is information forinformative purpose, the target information for informative purpose canbe obtained from applications for informative purpose or from Internetwhen the display screen of a terminal equipment is in a screen-offstate, and when it is detected that the display screen is switched to ascreen-on state, an information card is displayed on the display screen,which information card contains the target information for informativepurpose.

As another embodiment, target information may be obtained in real timeand displayed after a display instruction is received. For example, whena terminal equipment receives push information or a prompt message froma third-party application or the system, the terminal equipment obtainsthe push information or the prompt message in real time, and generatestarget information based on the push information or the prompt messageand display the target information.

For example, upon receiving a chat message from a friend sent via WeChatapplication, target information can be generated based on the friend'sidentity and the chat content.

Upon receiving a power prompt message or a memory prompt message sent bythe system, target information can be generated based on the promptmessage.

As another embodiment, the display instruction may also be a displayinstruction input by a user, in which case the information to bedisplayed in an information card includes information obtained fromnetwork side according to the display instruction input by the user.

That is, it is possible to obtain corresponding target information fromnetwork side according to a display instruction input by a user and todisplay the target information on a display screen of a terminalequipment in form of an information card. Or it is also possible toobtain some information from network side in advance, and to determinethe target information corresponding to a display instruction input by auser among the information obtained in advance after receiving thedisplay instruction, and then to display the target information on thedisplay screen of the terminal equipment in form of an information card.

For example, some controls can be set in display cards, such as acontrol to get weather information by a click. The terminal equipmentcan obtain weather information in advance from network side, and displaythe weather information on an information card after detecting that thecontrol is clicked by a user, that is, after receiving a displayinstruction input by a user.

For example, some search entries can be set in display cards. A user canenter a keyword in the search entries. The terminal can obtain targetinformation corresponding to the keyword from network side, and displaythe target information on an information card after detecting thekeyword input by a user, that is, after receiving a display instructioninput by a user.

As an embodiment, an information card can include a multimedia resourcedisplay area and/or a text area, wherein the multimedia resource displayarea is used for displaying multimedia resource information, and thetext area is used for displaying text information.

The multimedia resource information can include pictures, videos and thelike. If the information card includes information for informativepurpose, the multimedia resource display area can display the picturesrelated to the information for informative purpose while the text areacan display the summary content of the information for informativepurpose. If the information card includes a chat message from a friendsent via WeChat application, the multimedia resource display area candisplay the avatar of the friend, background pictures and the like whilethe text area can display chat contents.

When the information card includes both the multimedia resource displayarea and the text area, the two areas can be arranged vertically orhorizontally, which is not specifically limited.

If a plurality of pieces of target information are obtained, theinformation to be displayed in the current information card can bedetermined among the obtained target information, which is referred toas the current target information. The current target information can beinterpreted as the target information to be displayed to users in thefirst place. When determining the current target information, thecontent in which the user is interested can be preferentially determinedas the current target information based on user's preferences; orimportant information, such as prompt message from the system and thelike, can also be determined as the current target information such thatthe user will handle the important information with priorities; or thetarget information with the highest relevancy to the display instructioninput by a user can also be determined as the current targetinformation.

That is, priority rules can be set according to actual situations andthen the current target information can be determined according to thepriority rules. The information card, which contains the abovedetermined current target information, is displayed after receiving adisplay instruction.

As an embodiment, an information card can be displayed in alocked-screen state when it is detected that the display screen becomesbright.

As another embodiment, an information card can be displayed in thecurrent desktop, or in the current application.

In other words, the present method can be used in a variety ofapplication scenarios. For example, the terminal equipment detects thatthe display screen becomes bright (a display instruction is received) ina locked-screen state, in this case an information card can bedisplayed. Or the interface of an application is currently beingdisplayed by the terminal equipment and then push information of athird-party application is received (a display instruction is received),in this case an information card can be displayed in the currentapplication. Or the desktop is currently displayed by the terminalequipment and then push information from a third-party application isreceived (a display instruction is received), in this case aninformation card can be displayed on the current desktop.

The above information card can be interpreted as a combined carrier forinformation control and information display, which provides an interfacefor information control and information display. Specifically, the aboveinformation card can be used only for information display, and can alsobe used for both information display and information input, which is notlimited by the present application. The information card can be arectangle of a preset size or other shape, wherein the size and shape ofthe information card can be set according to the display screen of aterminal equipment. It should be noted that the size of the informationcard is smaller than that of the display screen. As shown in FIG. 2a ,the information card does not cover the entire display screen. Thisinformation card can be referred to as a large card.

As an embodiment, prompt information can be displayed in a presetposition on the display screen, the prompt information being used forprompting the presence of other information cards.

That is, when multiple pieces of target information are obtained andmultiple information cards are present, prompt information can bedisplayed in a preset position on the display screen, to remind the userthat there are further multiple pieces of browsable target information.

Specifically, the prompt information can be a prompt symbol of arrowshape or a prompt card in a card form. The prompt card can be a cardwith a size smaller than that of the information card, for example, acard with a width narrower than that of the information card and/or acard with a height smaller than that of the information card. The promptcard can display partial content of the target information, or does notdisplay the content of the target information, both situations can playa role in prompting the user.

As an embodiment, a prompt card can be displayed at the left boundaryand/or the right boundary of the display screen, wherein the size of theprompt card is set according to the remaining size of the displayscreen, which remaining size is the size obtained by subtracting thesize of the information card from the size of the display screen.

As shown in FIG. 2b , prompt cards can be displayed at both the leftboundary and the right boundary of the display screen, and a prompt cardcan be displayed only at the left boundary of the display screen asshown in FIG. 2c , and a prompt card can also be displayed only at theright boundary of the display screen as shown in FIG. 2d , which is notlimited specifically.

After browsing the information card currently being displayed, a usercan slide the display screen leftward or rightward to browse otherinformation cards.

S102: receiving a switching instruction.

S103: if the switching instruction is to slide rightwards, at least onenew information card is moved into the display screen from left to rightwhen moving the at least one information card rightwards out of thedisplay screen; if the switching instruction is to slide leftwards, atleast one new information card is moved into the display screen fromright to left when moving the at least one information card leftwardsout of the display screen.

It should be noted that there can be several ways to switch from theinformation card previously displayed to a new information card. Forexample, the new information card can replace the previous card directlyin a preset switching manner; or the new information card can replacethe previous information card in a built-in switching manner.

The above preset switching manner can be the manner to display thetarget information after the switch directly, to display the targetinformation after the switch in an explosive manner, to display thetarget information after the switch in a slowly-moving manner from topto bottom and the like.

The above built-in switching manner can be to slide inward linearly, toslide inward according to a preset curve line, to fly inward and thelike.

The present embodiment provides a switching manner, i.e. slidingleftward or rightward to switch, that is to say, a correlated movementof the information card previously displayed and a new information card,while the information card previously displayed is moved out of thedisplay screen, the new information card is moved into the displayscreen.

Specifically, if the switching instruction is to slide rightwards, thenew information card is moved into the display screen from left to rightwhen the information card previously displayed is moved rightward out ofthe display screen; if the switching instruction is to slide leftwards,the new information card is moved into the display screen from right toleft when the previously displayed information card is moved leftwardout of the display screen.

It should be noted that the switching instruction can be a receivedswitching instruction input by a user, or can also be a receivedswitching instruction generated according to a predefined rule.

It can be understood that a user can slide leftwards or rightwards onthe display screen. It can indicates that a switching instruction isreceived if an operation of sliding leftwards or rightwards by a user isdetected. If the operation is that the user slides leftward, then theswitching instruction is to slide leftward, and if the operation is thatthe user slides rightward, then the switching instruction is to sliderightward.

Or a predefined rule can be set. For example, a switching instruction isreceived to switch the information card after the information card hasbeen already displayed for a preset duration. Specifically, a timer canbe started in the information card which displays information, it isconsidered as that the switching instruction is received when the timergets to the set duration, in which case the information card isswitched.

Since the switching instruction comprises sliding leftwards andrightwards, correspondingly, the information card can be displayed inthe manner that at least one information card is arranged horizontallyon the display screen. It can be understood that sliding leftward andrightward conforms to the usage habit of users when the information cardis arranged horizontally.

Generally, if the terminal equipment is a cell phone, the display screenthereof is smaller and can display only one information card; if theterminal equipment is a tablet, the display screen thereof is larger andcan display more information cards. Each information card can bedisplayed in horizontal arrangement on the display screen when thenumber of the information cards is greater than 1. Or each informationcard can be arranged according to the size of the actual terminal.

By applying the embodiment of the application shown in FIG. 1, at leastone information card is displayed on a display screen after a displayinstruction is received, the information card including the informationto be displayed. There may be many cases in which a display instructionis received by a terminal equipment: when it is detected by a terminalequipment that a display screen becomes bright; or a terminal equipmentinitiates a timer and each time the timer reaches a preset period; orwhen a terminal equipment receives a push information or a promptmessage from a third-party application or a system, and the like, inwhich cases a display instruction can be considered received. Aninformation card is displayed as long as a terminal equipment receives adisplay instruction, such that a user can browse information displayedon an information card without entering an application, and thus theoperation is simple. In addition, the terminal device can also switchinformation cards after receiving a switching instruction to displaymore information to a user.

In the embodiment shown in the present application, a user may not onlyview the information card but also perform other operations thereon suchas zooming in, zooming out, deleting, flipping over, etc.

As an embodiment, a first interaction instruction for the informationcard can be received and an operation corresponding to the firstinteraction instruction can be performed.

As the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, which is a second flowchart of themethod for displaying information provided by an embodiment of thepresent application. After S101, the following steps are performed:

S104: receiving a first interaction instruction for the information cardand performing an operation corresponding to the first interactioninstruction.

As an embodiment, the first interaction instruction can be aninstruction of moving out a card. The step of performing an operationcorresponding to the first interaction instruction can comprise movingthe information card upwards or downwards out of the display screen.

A delete button can be set in the information card, and it indicatesthat the instruction of moving out a card is received if it is detectedthat the user clicks the delete button. Or the instruction of moving outa card can be a preset gesture of users, and it indicates that the cardinstruction of moving out a card is received if the preset gesture ofusers is detected.

If only one information card is currently displayed on the displayscreen, the information card can be directly moved upwards or downwardsout of the display screen. If several information cards are currentlydisplayed on the display screen, the information card to be deleted, towhich the instruction of moving out a card corresponds, can bedetermined and then the determined information card to be deleted ismoved upwards or downwards out of the display screen.

It should be noted that if a user moves the information card out of thedisplay screen, it indicates that the user is not interest in theinformation displayed in the information card. Thus, this kind ofinformation can be marked, and then, upon displaying information cards,this kind of information card can be deleted or is not generated anymore.

By applying the embodiment, the information card can be moved out of thedisplay screen according to the instruction of users, and thereby thekind of information in which users are not interested is recorded, toavoid displaying this kind of information card again during thesubsequent process of displaying information, thus improving userexperience.

As an embodiment, the first interaction instruction can be aninstruction of flipping over a card. The step of performing an operationcorresponding to the first interaction instruction can comprise:

flipping over the information card and displaying related information ofthe information to be displayed, which is contained in the informationcard, on the back of the information card.

A flipping-over button can be set in the information card, and itindicates that the instruction of flipping over a card is received if itis detected that a user clicks the flipping-over button. Or theinstruction of flipping over a card can be a preset gesture of users,and it indicates that the instruction of flipping over a card isreceived if the preset gesture of users is detected.

It is the back of the information card that is displayed after theinformation card is flipped over. The information contained on the backof the information card can be associated with the information containedon the front thereof.

For example, if the information contained on the front of theinformation card is information for informative purpose, then theinformation contained on the back of the information card can be commentinformation associated with the information for informative purpose,information for informative purpose associated with the information forinformative purpose, or advertisement and the like, which is not limitedspecifically.

If the information contained on the front of the information card is amessage from a friend sent via WeChat application program, theinformation contained on the back thereof can be the identityinformation of said friend.

According to the above description, an information card can contain amultimedia resource display area and a text area, the multimediaresource display area being used for displaying multimedia resourceinformation and the text area being used for displaying textinformation. In this case, when the information card is flipped over, itis possible to only flip over the text area while the multimediaresource display area is not flipped over. The text information relatedto the text information of the text area is displayed on the back of theinformation card.

For example, the information card contains information for informativepurpose, the multimedia resource display area displays related picturesof the information for informative purpose, the text area displays thesummary content of the information for informative purpose, and the textarea on the back of the information card displays the commentinformation for the information for informative purpose. When theinformation card is flipped over, only the text area is flipped, whereasthe multimedia resource display area remains the same, such that userscan see pictures when browsing comment information, and thus the designis more reasonable.

By applying the embodiment of the application, more information can bedisplayed on the back of the information card through flipping over theinformation card; on the other hand, user experience is better throughadding the function of flipping over a card.

As an embodiment, the first interaction instruction can be aninstruction of adjusting card size. The step of performing an operationcorresponding to the first interaction instruction can comprise:

adjusting the size of an information card on the display screen.

A size-enlarging button, a size-reducing button and the like can be setin the information card, or a corresponding relationship between agesture of a user and an instruction can be preset. For example, itdenotes the size-reducing instruction if a user conducts a pinch-ingesture, and it denotes the size-enlarging instruction if a userconducts a pinch-out gesture, which is not limited specifically.

It can be regarded as that an instruction of adjusting card size isreceived when it is detected that a user clicks the size-enlargingbutton in the information card or the pinch-out gesture of a user isdetected. In this case, the size of information card can be enlarged,and correspondingly, characters and pictures contained in theinformation card can also be enlarged in the same proportion.

Similarly, it can be regarded as that an instruction of adjusting cardsize is received when it is detected that a user clicks thesize-reducing button in the information card or the pinch-out gesture bya user is detected. In this case, the size of information card can bereduced, and correspondingly, the size of characters and picturescontained in the information card can also be reduced in the sameproportion.

As an embodiment, the first interaction instruction is an instruction ofadjusting the number of cards. The step of performing an operationcorresponding to the first interaction instruction can comprise:

adjusting the number of the information cards on the display screen.

A button of “number of cards” or other similar buttons can be set in theinformation card or in other position on the display screen, such thatusers can adjust the number of information cards on the display screenthrough the button.

According to the above description, the number of information cards canbe greater than 1. In this case, users can further rearrange the severalinformation cards.

Specifically, a user can click the rearrangement button in theinformation card and choose the information card to be rearranged andthe position after rearrangement. Or the user can use a preset gestureon the display screen to arrange the information cards. In both cases,the terminal equipment can rearrange each of the displayed informationcard according to the arrangement information (the information card tobe arranged and the position thereof after rearrangement) carried in anarrangement request.

As an embodiment, the first interaction instruction can be aninstruction of adjusting information state. The step of performing anoperation corresponding to the first interaction instruction cancomprise:

adjusting the display state of information in the information card.

The display state of the information in the above information card cancomprise the size of characters and pictures of the informationdisplayed in the information card, or can comprise a folded display oran unfolded display of the displayed content.

In the present embodiment, characters and pictures in the informationcard can be zoomed in without changing the size of information card.

In the present embodiment, a zooming-in button, a zooming-out button andthe like can be set in the information card, or a correspondingrelationship between a gesture of a user and an instruction can be setin advance. For example, it denotes a zooming-in instruction if a userconducts a pinch-in gesture, and it denotes a zooming-out instruction ifa user conducts a pinch-out gesture, which is not limited specifically.

It can be regard as that the instruction of adjusting information stateis received when it is detected that a user clicks the zooming-in buttonin the information card or the pinch-in gesture of a user is detected.In both cases, the enlarged current target information can be determinedand displayed.

Since in the present embodiment, the size of an information card remainsthe same and the content arrangement displayed in the information cardis to vary after texts and pictures in the information card are zoomedin, the current target information after zoomed in can be re-determinedand displayed.

For example, if the font size after zoomed in is 10 pt, it is determinedthat the number of words which can be displayed in the information cardis 100, and then the 100 words are displayed in an arrangement.

Similarly, it can be regarded as that an instruction of adjustinginformation state sent by a user is received when it is detected thatthe user clicks the zooming-out button in the information card or apinch-out gesture of a user is detected. In both cases, the currenttarget information after zoomed out can be determined and displayed.

Since in the present embodiment, the size of an information card remainsthe same and the content arrangement displayed in the information cardis to vary after texts and pictures in the information card are zoomedout, the current target information after zoomed out can bere-determined and displayed.

For example, if the font size before zoomed out is 8 pt and the numberof words which can be displayed in the information card is 200, the fontsize after zoomed out is 6 pt and the number of words which can bedisplayed in the information card is 400, and then target informationcan be re-obtained. The re-obtained target information content can bemore than previous target information, and the information card isre-generated according to the re-obtained target information, whereinthe regenerated main card can contain 400 words.

In the present embodiment, an “unfold the content” button and a “fold”button or other similar buttons can be set in the information card, suchthat a user can adjust the display state of an information card on thedisplay screen through said button.

For example, if the information contained in an information card is aprompt message sent by WeChat application program, which prompt messagecarries friend circle information published by a friend and the friendcircle information contains a lot of content, then the display state canbe divided as a folded display and an unfolded display. A user canbrowse the complete content of the friend circle information through the“unfold the content” button when the friend circle information isfolded-displayed; and a user can switch the display state of the friendcircle information to a folded display through the “fold” button whenthe friend circle information is unfolded-displayed.

By applying the above embodiment, the information card can be enlargedor reduced, and each information card can also be adjusted regarding thenumber thereof or be rearranged, and the information in informationcards can also be adjusted, such that the user experience is improved.

As an embodiment, the first interaction instruction can be aninstruction of displaying related information. The step of performing anoperation corresponding to the first interaction instruction cancomprise:

displaying information related to the information card in a new windowof the display screen.

For example, the information displayed in an information card is targetinformation for informative purpose, which only contains pictures andthe summary of texts, a “read more” prompt button and the like can beset in the information card. After a user clicks said prompt button(receiving an instruction of displaying related information), thecorresponding application program interface appears (a new window on thedisplay), i.e. an interface of an application program for informativepurpose, such that the user can browse more information for informativepurpose.

As an embodiment, a second interaction instruction can be also received,the second interaction instruction being an instruction for a new windowof the display screen; the information corresponding to the secondinteraction instruction is displayed.

As an extension of the above example, after jumping to the interface ofan application program for informative purpose, the interactioninstruction for the application program interface can be furtherreceived. For example, after the instruction of displaying otherinformation for informative purpose in the application program interfaceis received, other information for informative purpose corresponding tosaid instruction is displayed.

By applying the above embodiment, a user can browse more information bycard jumping to a new interface, thereby improving the ease of a user'soperation.

As an embodiment, the first interaction instruction can be a layoutadjusting instruction. The step of performing an operation correspondingto the first interaction instruction can comprise:

obtaining at least two summary cards to be displayed, and replacing theinformation card currently being displayed with the at least two summarycards, wherein, the summary card is the above information card of areduced size, in which the summary content of the target information canbe displayed. The summary content of each piece of target informationcan be the entire target information, or can be a part of the targetinformation, which is not limited by the present application.

Specifically, according to several pieces of target information obtainedby a terminal equipment, the summary content of these several pieces oftarget information is displayed in several summary cardscorrespondingly. In each summary card, the summary content of one pieceof target information is displayed, in which the information can bedisplayed in a zoomed-out manner, or can be displayed according to apreset interface layout manner. For example, pictures and texts aredisplayed on the left side and right side of a summary cardrespectively.

In an embodiment of the application, the at least two summary cards canbe arranged in a spaced manner. In this case, these summary cards can beuniformly arranged in an equally spaced manner or can also benon-uniformly arranged in an unequally spaced manner, which is notlimited by the application herein.

It can be understood by those skilled in the art that target informationobtained by a terminal equipment can belong to different types ofinformation according to different classification perspectives. Forexample, if the target information is information for informativepurpose obtained from network side, then the target information can beclassified according to a perspective of information for informativepurpose, such as sports information, entertainment information, newsinformation and the like; if the target information is obtained form athird-party application or from the system, then the target informationcan be classified with application identifiers, such as WeChat, systeminformation and the like. Based on this, when the above at least twosummary cards are uniformly arranged in the equally spaced manner, thesummary cards can form a summary card row when viewed horizontally andthe summary cards can form a summary card column when viewed vertically.On this basis, one row or one column of summary cards can correspond toone type of information, such that a user can find the summary cardcorresponding to the desired application program according to theclassification easily.

Specifically, the maximum number of the summary cards contained in eachsummary card row and/or each summary card column displayed on thedisplay screen can be preset, for example, 3, 4, 5 and the like.

Assume that one row of summary cards corresponds to one type ofinformation and the preset maximum number of the summary cards containedin one row of summary cards displayed on the display screen is: 4.

If the type of information is classified according to applicationidentifiers, then the number of summary cards corresponding to each typeof information and the number of summary cards in the summary card rowdisplayed on the display screen are as follows respectively:

the number of summary cards corresponding to system information is: 4,and the number of the summary cards displayed in the row is 4;

the number of summary cards corresponding to WeChat is: 3, and thenumber of summary cards displayed in the row is 3.

If the type of information is classified according to a perspective ofinformation for informative purpose, then the number of summary cardscorresponding to each type of information and the number of summarycards in the summary card row displayed on the display screen are asfollows respectively:

the number of summary cards corresponding to sports information is: 4,and the number of summary cards displayed in the row is 4;

the number of summary cards corresponding to entertainment informationis: 3, and the number of summary cards displayed in the row is 3;

the number of summary cards corresponding to news information is: 2, andthe number of summary cards displayed in the row is 2.

It can be seen from the above that the number of the summary cardsdisplayed in each row will be less than or equal to the preset maximumnumber of the summary cards contained in a row.

Moreover, an information type identifier can be displayed in a presetposition when one row or one column of summary cards corresponds to onetype of information. For example, the information type identifier isdisplayed in the upper left corner of a row of summary cards, or theinformation type identifier is displayed in the top end of a column ofsummary cards, etc.

Specifically, see FIGS. 2e-2h , which show the process of at least twosummary cards replacing the information card currently being displayedin line drawings of interfaces. As can be seen from the four linedrawings, after a layout adjusting instruction is received, the size ofthe information card currently being displayed is reduced gradually andfinally the information card currently being displayed becomes thesummary card to which it corresponds, while other summary cardsgradually enter the display screen, and finally the summary card of theinformation card currently being displayed is displayed along with othersummary cards. It should be noted that the process shown in FIGS. 2e-2his only the case that the information card currently being displayed isreplaced with at least two summary cards, and the specific realizationform of the replacement process is not limited by the application.

In another embodiment of the application, the at least two summary cardscan be displayed in at least one column as a summary card queue, whereinsummary cards in the summary card queue are arranged in anon-overlapping manner;

the above at least two summary cards can also be displayed in at leastone row as a summary card queue.

Specifically, the summary card queue contains at least one summary card.Each summary card in a same summary card queue can be equally spacedarranged in a non-overlapping manner or can also be non-equally spacedarranged in a non-overlapping manner.

Specifically, see FIGS. 2i-2m , which show the process of at least twosummary cards replacing the information card currently being displayedin line drawings of interfaces. As seen from the five line drawings,after a layout adjusting instruction is received, the information cardcurrently being displayed in a horizontal arrangement gradually becomesa summary card, and then becomes summary cards vertically arranged in anoverlapping manner. The size of the summary cards are gradually reducedin the process of overlapping transformation and the information cardsnot being currently displayed gradually enter the display screen.

By comparing FIGS. 2i and 2m , it can be seen that the content of thesummary cards is only a part of the content in the information card andthe arrangement of the images and text in the summary card is changedwith respect to the arrangement of the images and text in theinformation card, which is changed from a vertical arrangement to ahorizontal arrangement.

It should be noted that the process shown in FIGS. 2i-2m is only thecase that the information card currently being displayed is replacedwith at least two summary cards, and the specific realization form ofthe replacement process is not limited by the application.

The process in which the display of an information card is changed tothe display of summary cards after receiving a layout adjustinginstruction (which is referred to as the first layout adjustinginstruction below) is described above. Specifically, the display ofsummary cards can also be changed to the display of an information cardthrough receiving another layout adjusting instruction (which isreferred to as the second layout adjusting instruction below).Optionally, when the display of summary cards is changed to the displayof an information card, the information card displayed can be the onebefore changed to the display of summary cards, or it can be theinformation card corresponding to the summary card newly selected by auser, which is not limited by the application.

When changing the layout, the above first layout adjusting instructioncan be an instruction generated through detecting a pinch-out gesture.In this case, after the display of summary cards is changed to thedisplay of an information card, the displayed information card containsthe information card displayed before the summary cards are displayed.Moreover, the above second adjusting instruction can be an instructiongenerated through detecting that a user clicks a summary card. In thiscase, after the display of summary cards is changed to the display of aninformation card, the displayed information card contains theinformation card corresponding to the summary card clicked by the user.

Corresponding to the above embodiments of method, the applicationfurther provides a device for displaying information.

FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of a device for displaying informationprovided by an embodiment of the application, which comprises:

a first display module 401 for receiving a display instruction anddisplaying at least one information card on a display screen of aterminal equipment, wherein the size of information card is smaller thanthe size of the display screen, and the information card includesinformation to be displayed;

a switching module 402 for receiving a switching instruction; if theswitching instruction is to slide rightwards, at least one newinformation card is moved into the display screen from left to rightwhen moving the at least one information card rightwards out of thedisplay screen; if the switching instruction is to slide leftwards, atleast one new information card is moved into the display screen fromright to left when moving the at least one information card leftwardsout of the display screen.

In the present embodiment, the first display module can be specificallyused for:

receiving a display instruction input by a user and displaying at leastone information card on a display screen of a terminal equipment;

wherein the information to be displayed includes information obtainedfrom the network side according to the display instruction input by theuser.

In the present embodiment, the device can further comprise:

a second display module (not shown in the figures) for displaying promptinformation in a preset position on the display screen, the promptinformation being used for prompting the presence of other informationcards.

In the present embodiment, the second display module can be specificallyused for:

displaying a prompt card at the left boundary and/or the right boundaryof the display screen, wherein the size of the prompt card is setaccording to the remaining size of the display screen, the remainingsize being the size obtained by subtracting the size of the informationcard from the size of the display screen.

In the present embodiment, the switching instruction can be a switchinginstruction input by a user or generated according to a predefined rule.

In the present embodiment, the first display module 401 can bespecifically used for:

receiving a display instruction and displaying the information card on adisplay screen of a terminal equipment in a manner in which at least oneinformation card is arranged horizontally.

In the present embodiment, the information card comprises a multimediaresource display area and/or a text area, wherein the multimediaresource display area is used for displaying multimedia resourceinformation, and the text area is used for displaying text information.

In the present embodiment, the device can further comprise a firstreceiving module and a performing module (not shown in the figures),wherein;

the first receiving module is used for receiving a first interactioninstruction for the information card;

the performing module is used for performing an operation correspondingto the first interaction instruction.

In the present embodiment, the first interaction instruction is aninstruction of moving out a card, the performing module is specificallyused for:

moving the information card upward or downward out of the displayscreen;

or the first interaction instruction is an instruction of flipping overa card, the performing module is specifically used for:

flipping over the information card and displaying related information ofthe information to be displayed, which is included in the informationcard, on the back of the information card.

In the present embodiment, when the information card comprises amultimedia resource display area and a text area, and the firstinteraction instruction is an instruction of flipping over a card, theperforming module is specifically used for:

flipping over the text area of the information card to the back of theinformation card and displaying related text information of the textinformation of the text area on the back of the information card.

In the present embodiment, the first interaction instruction is aninstruction of adjusting card size, the performing module isspecifically used for:

adjusting the size of the information card on the display screen;

or the first interaction instruction is an instruction of adjusting thenumber of cards, the performing module is specifically used for:

adjusting the number of the information cards displayed on the displayscreen;

or the first interaction instruction is an instruction of adjustinginformation state, the performing module is specifically used for:

adjusting the display state of information in the information card.

In the present embodiment, the first interaction instruction is aninstruction of displaying related information, the performing module isspecifically used for:

displaying information related to the information card in a new windowof the display screen.

In the present embodiment, the device can further comprise a secondreceiving module and a third display module (not shown in the figures),wherein,

the second receiving module is used for receiving a second interactioninstruction, the second interaction instruction being an instruction forthe new window of the display screen;

the third display module is used for displaying informationcorresponding to the second interaction instruction.

In the present embodiment, the first interaction instruction is a layoutadjusting instruction, the performing module can be specifically usedfor:

obtaining at least two summary cards to be displayed, wherein thecontent of each summary card is determined according to the informationobtained from a program of the terminal equipment, the at least twosummary cards comprise a summary card of the information card currentlybeing displayed;

replacing the information card currently being displayed with the atleast two summary cards.

In the present embodiment, the at least two summary cards are arrangedin a spaced manner.

In the present embodiment, the at least two summary cards are uniformlyarranged in an equally spaced manner;

one row or one column of summary cards corresponds to one type ofinformation.

In the present embodiment, the at least two summary cards are displayedin at least one column as a summary card queue, wherein summary cards inthe summary card queue are arranged in a non-overlapping manner; or

the at least two summary cards are displayed in at least one row as asummary card queue.

By applying the embodiments of the present application shown in FIG. 4,at least one information card is displayed on a display screen of aterminal equipment after a display instruction is received. It meansthat an information card is displayed as long as a terminal equipmentreceives a display instruction, so that a user can browse informationdisplayed on an information card without entering an application, andthus the operation is simple. In addition, the terminal device can alsoswitch information cards after receiving a switching instruction todisplay more information to a user.

An embodiment of the application further provides a terminal equipment.As shown in FIG. 5, the terminal comprises: a processor 510, a memory520, communication interfaces 530, input/output interfaces 540 and a bus550, wherein the processor 510, the memory 520, the communicationinterfaces 530 and the input/output interfaces 540 are connected to thebus 550 respectively, the memory 520 being used for storing executableprogram codes; the processor 510 executing a program corresponding tothe executable program codes through reading the executable programcodes stored in the memory 520, so as to perform the following steps:

receiving a display instruction and displaying at least one informationcard on a display screen of a terminal equipment;

receiving a switching instruction;

if the switching instruction is to slide rightwards, at least one newinformation card is moved into the display screen from left to rightwhen moving the at least one information card rightwards out of thedisplay screen;

if the switching instruction is to slide leftwards, at least one newinformation card is moved into the display screen from right to leftwhen moving the at least one information card leftwards out of thedisplay screen;

wherein, the size of the information card is smaller than the size ofthe display screen, the information card includes information to bedisplayed.

Regarding the specific process of the processor 510 performing the abovesteps and the steps further performed by the processor 510 throughoperating executable program code, reference can be made to the relateddescription of the method provided by embodiments of the presentapplication, which will not be repeated here.

Wherein the display screen acts as the input interface and the outputinterface when the display screen of the terminal equipment is a touchscreen; and the display screen acts as the output interface with akeyboard and/or a mouse as the input interface when the display screenof the terminal equipment is not a touch screen.

The terminal equipment is present in a variety of forms, which comprisebut do not be limited to:

(1) mobile communication equipment: this kind of equipment ischaracterized in the ability of mobile communication and mainly aims toprovide voice and data communication. This kind of terminal comprises:smartphones (for example, iPhone), multimedia phones, functional phonesand low end phones and the like.

(2) ultra-mobile personal computer equipment: this kind of equipmentbelongs to the category of personal computer, which has the function ofcomputing and possessing and generally possesses mobile networkingproperty. This kind of terminal comprises: PDA, MID and UMPC equipmentand the like, for example iPad.

(3) portable entertainment equipment: this kind of equipment can displayand play multimedia content. This kind of equipment comprises: audio andvideo players (for example, iPods), handheld game consoles, e-booksreaders, intelligent toys and portable vehicle navigation equipment.

(4) other electric device with data interaction function.

As shown above, in the embodiments of the present application, at leastone information card is displayed on a display screen of a terminalequipment after a display instruction is received, the information cardincluding information to be displayed. That is, an information card isdisplayed as long as a terminal equipment receives a displayinstruction, such that a user can browse information displayed on theinformation card without entering an application, and thus the operationis simple. In addition, the terminal device can also switch informationcards after receiving a switching instruction to display moreinformation to a user.

An embodiment of the application further provides an application programfor performing the method for displaying information when beingexecuted. The method comprises:

receiving a display instruction and displaying at least one informationcard on a display screen of a terminal equipment;

receiving a switching instruction;

if the switching instruction is to slide rightwards, at least one newinformation card is moved into the display screen from left to rightwhen moving the at least one information card rightwards out of thedisplay screen;

if the switching instruction is to slide leftwards, at least one newinformation card is moved into the display screen from right to leftwhen moving the at least one information card leftwards out of thedisplay screen;

wherein, the size of the information card is smaller than the size ofthe display screen, the information card includes information to bedisplayed.

By applying the embodiments of the present application, at least oneinformation card is displayed on a display screen after receiving adisplay instruction, the information card including information to bedisplayed. It means that an information card is displayed as long as aterminal equipment receives a display instruction, so that a user canbrowse information displayed on an information card without entering anapplication, the operation being simple. In addition, the terminaldevice can also switch information cards after receiving a switchinginstruction to display more information to a user.

An embodiment of the application further provides a storage medium forstoring application programs, which are used to perform the method fordisplaying information when being executed, the method comprises:

receiving a display instruction and displaying at least one informationcard on a display screen of a terminal equipment;

receiving a switching instruction;

if the switching instruction is to slide rightwards, at least one newinformation card is moved into the display screen from left to rightwhen moving the at least one information card rightwards out of thedisplay screen;

if the switching instruction is to slide leftwards, at least one newinformation card is moved into the display screen from right to leftwhen moving the at least one information card leftwards out of thedisplay screen;

wherein, the size of the information card is smaller than the size ofthe display screen, the information card includes information to bedisplayed.

By applying the embodiments of the present application, at least oneinformation card is displayed on a display screen of a terminalequipment after a display instruction is received, the information cardincluding information to be displayed. That is, an information card isdisplayed as long as a terminal equipment receives a displayinstruction, such that a user can browse information displayed on theinformation card without entering an application, and thus the operationis simple. In addition, the terminal device can also switch informationcards after receiving a switching instruction to display moreinformation to a user.

Embodiments of a device and terminal equipment are simply describedsince they are essentially similar to embodiments of a method, and therelated parts could refer to the parts of the description of embodimentsof a method.

It should be noted that the relationship terms herein such as “first”,“second” and the like are only used to distinguish one entity oroperation from another entity or operation, but do not necessarilyrequire or imply that there is actual relationship or order betweenthese entities or operations. Moreover, the terms “include”, “comprise”or any variants thereof are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion,such that processes, methods, articles or devices comprising a series ofelements comprise not only those elements listed, but also otherelements not specifically listed or the elements intrinsic to theseprocesses, methods, articles, or devices. Without further limitations,elements limited by the wording “comprise(s) a/an . . . ” do not excludethat there are additional identical elements in the processes, methods,articles, or devices which comprise the listed elements.

All embodiments in the description are described in a correlated manner,and identical or similar parts in various embodiments can be referred toone another, the description for each embodiment all focusing on thedifferences with other embodiments. Especially, the embodiments of adevice are briefly described and reference can be made to thedescription of the embodiments of a method for its related contentssince the embodiments of the device are substantially similar to thoseof the method.

Those ordinary skilled in the art can understand that all or parts ofthe steps in the above method embodiments can be accomplished throughprograms instructing related hardware. The programs can be stored in acomputer-readable storage medium, such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disc,optical disk and the like.

The embodiments described above are just preferable embodiments of thepresent application, and not indented to limit the protection scope ofthe present application. Any modifications, alternatives, improvementsor the like within the spirit and principle of the present applicationshall fall into the protection scope of the present application.

1. A method for displaying information, wherein the method comprisessteps of: receiving a display instruction and displaying at least oneinformation card on a display screen of a terminal equipment; receivinga switching instruction; if the switching instruction is to sliderightwards, at least one new information card is moved into the displayscreen from left to right when moving the at least one information cardrightwards out of the display screen; if the switching instruction is toslide leftwards, at least one new information card is moved into thedisplay screen from right to left when moving the at least oneinformation card leftwards out of the display screen; wherein, the sizeof the information card is smaller than the size of the display screen,the information card includes information to be displayed, wherein theinformation card comprises a multimedia resource display area and/or atext area, wherein the multimedia resource display area is used fordisplaying multimedia resource information, and the text area is usedfor displaying text information, and wherein the method furthercomprises: receiving a first interaction instruction for the informationcard, and performing an operation corresponding to the first interactioninstruction, and wherein the step of performing an operationcorresponding to the first interaction instruction comprises: flippingover the text area of the information card and displaying textinformation related to the text information of the text area, on theback of the information card when the first interaction instruction isan instruction of flipping over a card, wherein when the informationcard is flipped over, only the text area is flipped over while themultimedia resource display area is not flipped over, and wherein themethod further comprises: receiving a second interaction instruction,which is an instruction for a new window of the display screen; anddisplaying information corresponding to the second interactioninstruction, wherein, the step of performing an operation correspondingto the first interaction instruction comprises moving the informationcard upward or downward out of the display screen when the firstinteraction instruction is an instruction of moving out a card, and whenthe information card is moved out of the display screen, marking thiskind of information, and wherein upon displaying information cards, thiskind of information card is deleted or is not generated any more.
 2. Themethod according to claim 1, wherein the step of receiving a displayinstruction and displaying at least one information card on a displayscreen of a terminal equipment comprises: receiving a displayinstruction input by a user and displaying at least one information cardon a display screen of a terminal equipment; wherein the information tobe displayed includes information obtained from network side accordingto the display instruction input by the user.
 3. The method according toclaim 1, wherein the method further comprises: displaying promptinformation in a preset position on the display screen, the promptinformation being used for prompting the presence of other informationcards.
 4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the step ofdisplaying prompt information in a preset position on the display screencomprises: displaying a prompt card at the left boundary and/or theright boundary of the display screen, wherein the size of the promptcard is set according to the remaining size of the display screen, theremaining size is the size obtained by subtracting the size of theinformation card from the size of the display screen.
 5. The methodaccording to claim 1, wherein the step of receiving a switchinginstruction comprises one of the followings: receiving a switchinginstruction input by a user; and receiving a switching instructiongenerated according to a predefined rule.
 6. The method according toclaim 1, wherein the step of displaying at least one information card ona display screen of a terminal equipment comprises: displaying the atleast one information card on the display screen in a manner in which atleast one information card is arranged horizontally.
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 10. The method according to claim 1, whereinthe step of performing an operation corresponding to the firstinteraction instruction comprising one of the followings: adjusting thesize of the information card on the display screen when the firstinteraction instruction is an instruction of adjusting card size;adjusting the number of the information cards displayed on the displayscreen when the first interaction instruction is an instruction ofadjusting the number of cards; and adjusting the display state ofinformation in the information card when the first interactioninstruction is an instruction of adjusting information state.
 11. Themethod according to claim 1, wherein the first interaction instructionis an instruction of displaying related information, the step ofperforming an operation corresponding to the first interactioninstruction comprising: displaying information related to theinformation card in a new window of the display screen.
 12. The methodaccording to claim 1, wherein the first interaction instruction is alayout adjusting instruction, the step of performing an operationcorresponding to the first interaction instruction comprising: obtainingat least two summary cards to be displayed; and replacing theinformation card currently being displayed with the at least two summarycards.
 13. The method according to claim 12, wherein, the at least twosummary cards are arranged in a spaced manner.
 14. The method accordingto claim 13, wherein, the at least two summary cards are uniformlyarranged in an equally spaced manner; and one row or one column ofsummary cards corresponds to one type of information.
 15. The methodaccording to claim 12, wherein the at least two summary cards aredisplayed in one of the following ways: the at least two summary cardsare displayed in at least one column as a summary card queue, whereinthe summary cards in the summary card queue are arranged in anon-overlapping manner; and the at least two summary cards are displayedin at least one row as a summary card queue.
 16. A terminal equipment,wherein the terminal equipment comprises: a processor, a memory,communication interfaces, input/output interfaces and a bus, wherein theprocessor, the memory, the communication interfaces and the input/outputinterfaces are connected to the bus respectively, the memory is used forstoring executable program codes; the processor executes a programcorresponding to the executable program codes by reading the executableprogram codes stored in the memory, so as to perform a method fordisplaying information, which method comprises steps of: receiving adisplay instruction and displaying at least one information card on adisplay screen of the terminal equipment; receiving a switchinginstruction; if the switching instruction is to slide rightwards, atleast one new information card is moved into the display screen fromleft to right when moving the at least one information card rightwardsout of the display screen; if the switching instruction is to slideleftwards, at least one new information card is moved into the displayscreen from right to left when moving the at least one information cardleftwards out of the display screen; wherein, the size of theinformation card is smaller than the size of the display screen, theinformation card includes information to be displayed, wherein theinformation card comprises a multimedia resource display area and/or atext area, wherein the multimedia resource display area is used fordisplaying multimedia resource information, and the text area is usedfor displaying text information, and wherein the method furthercomprises: receiving a first interaction instruction for the informationcard, and performing an operation corresponding to the first interactioninstruction, and wherein the step of performing an operationcorresponding to the first interaction instruction comprises: flippingover the text area of the information card and displaying textinformation related to the text information of the text area, on theback of the information card when the first interaction instruction isan instruction of flipping over a card, wherein when the informationcard is flipped over, only the text area is flipped over while themultimedia resource display area is not flipped over; and; wherein themethod further comprises: receiving a second interaction instruction,which is an instruction for a new window of the display screen; anddisplaying information corresponding to the second interactioninstruction, wherein, the step of performing an operation correspondingto the first interaction instruction comprises moving the informationcard upward or downward out of the display screen when the firstinteraction instruction is an instruction of moving out a card, and whenthe information card is moved out of the display screen, marking thiskind of information, and wherein upon displaying information cards, thiskind of information card is deleted or is not generated any more. 17.The terminal equipment according to claim 16, wherein the step ofreceiving a display instruction and displaying at least one informationcard on a display screen of the terminal equipment comprises: receivinga display instruction input by a user and displaying at least oneinformation card on a display screen of the terminal equipment; whereinthe information to be displayed includes information obtained fromnetwork side according to the display instruction input by the user. 18.The terminal equipment according to claim 16, wherein the method fordisplaying information further comprises: displaying prompt informationin a preset position on the display screen, the prompt information beingused for prompting the presence of other information cards.
 19. Theterminal equipment according to claim 18, wherein the step of displayingprompt information in a preset position on the display screen comprises:displaying a prompt card at the left boundary and/or the right boundaryof the display screen, wherein the size of the prompt card is setaccording to the remaining size of the display screen, the remainingsize is the size obtained by subtracting the size of the informationcard from the size of the display screen.
 20. The terminal equipmentaccording to claim 16, wherein the step of receiving a switchinginstruction comprises one of the followings: receiving a switchinginstruction input by a user; and receiving a switching instructiongenerated according to a predefined rule.
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 24. The terminal equipment according to claim 16, whereinthe step of performing an operation corresponding to the firstinteraction instruction comprising one of the followings: adjusting thesize of the information card on the display screen when the firstinteraction instruction is an instruction of adjusting card size;adjusting the number of the information cards displayed on the displayscreen when the first interaction instruction is an instruction ofadjusting the number of cards; and adjusting the display state ofinformation in the information card when the first interactioninstruction is an instruction of adjusting information state.
 25. Theterminal equipment according to claim 16, wherein the first interactioninstruction is an instruction of displaying related information, thestep of performing an operation corresponding to the first interactioninstruction comprising: displaying information related to theinformation card in a new window of the display screen.
 26. The terminalequipment according to claim 16, wherein the first interactioninstruction is a layout adjusting instruction, the step of performing anoperation corresponding to the first interaction instruction comprising:obtaining at least two summary cards to be displayed; and replacing theinformation card currently being displayed with the at least two summarycards.
 27. The terminal equipment according to claim 26, wherein, the atleast two summary cards are arranged in a spaced manner.
 28. Theterminal equipment according to claim 27, wherein, the at least twosummary cards are uniformly arranged in an equally spaced manner; andone row or one column of summary cards corresponds to one type ofinformation.
 29. The terminal equipment according to claim 26, whereinthe at least two summary cards are displayed in one of the followingways: the at least two summary cards are displayed in at least onecolumn as a summary card queue, wherein the summary cards in the summarycard queue are arranged in a non-overlapping manner; and the at leasttwo summary cards are displayed in at least one row as a summary cardqueue.
 30. A non-transitory storage medium, wherein the storage mediumis used for storing application programs, which application programs areused to perform the method for displaying information of claim 1 whenbeing executed.
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